Zitat von nahal im Beitrag #4823

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Na, ich hoffe Willie hat eine Heizdsecke.

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Zitat von nahal im Beitrag #4825

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Voll Häme haben wir alle Artikel über Trumps China-Strategie über uns ergehen lassen.
Und jetzt......................
Die Chinesen lassen langsam die Hosen runter.

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Zitat von nahal im Beitrag #4824

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Harris hat schon verkackt.
Die anderen Zwerge folgen ihr.
Habe mir das Interview von Schultz mit Behar angeschaut.

Der Typ konnte meine Stimme haben.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/...four_years.html

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New intelligence assessment shows that Trump doesn't have any on North Korea, Iran, or 'the wall'
For Donald Trump, everything is a personal relationship: Compliment his chocolate cake, tell him his hands look big, swear to his intelligence—and he’s convinced that all is well. Trump flattery is a game so easily played that it’s not restricted to Vladimir Putin or a team of Russian researchers. Even the most reclusive leader from most secretive of states can play. So while Trump is utterly convinced that he made a tight bond with the “very worthy, very smart” Kim Jong-un, he doesn’t seem to understand that this instant friendship, if it exists outside his own mind, doesn’t mean that the North Korean dictator is about to give up every inch of nuclear leverage he controls.

The new intelligence assessment shows that it’s not just North Korea that Trump got wrong. According to officials, claims that Iran is actively developing nuclear weapons are not true, completely undercutting the excuses Trump made for pulling out of the multinational accord designed to keep Iran off the nuclear path. Also, while Trump may continue to insist that Iran is “a different country” than it was a few months ago, based on his insistence that U.S. actions have crimped the actions of the Iranian leadership, the assessment shows that Iran has not slowed in spreading its influence across the Middle East. ...

... But if the national security assessment shows that Trump was wrong about foreign threats at every turn, he can at least be happy about one thing—he’s not the first item on the list.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1830544

Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #4827

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Zitat von nahal im Beitrag #4825

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Voll Häme haben wir alle Artikel über Trumps China-Strategie über uns ergehen lassen.
Und jetzt......................
Die Chinesen lassen langsam die Hosen runter.

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Trump hat keine China-Strategie.

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Zitat von nahal im Beitrag #4830

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #4827

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Zitat von nahal im Beitrag #4825

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Voll Häme haben wir alle Artikel über Trumps China-Strategie über uns ergehen lassen.
Und jetzt......................
Die Chinesen lassen langsam die Hosen runter.

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Trump hat keine China-Strategie.

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Vielleicht ist das die Strategie.

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Zitat von nahal im Beitrag #4830

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Obama hat eine Strategie gehabt, genutzt hat es nicht.

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No GOP appetite for a second shutdown
Senate Republicans are signaling they will do just about anything to prevent a second shutdown after the White House was widely seen as badly losing the political fight over the closure that ended with President Trump’s retreat on Friday.

Republicans are in no mood to be dragged back into another partial closure in mid-February, the deadline to get a deal on spending for roughly a quarter of the government.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4275...second-shutdown

Foxconn won’t be building a factory in Wisconsin, after all
Also they're only going to hire about 1,000 people over the next two years instead of 5,000.

When former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) pitched his state on a massive tax incentive prize to lure the Chinese firm Foxconn to the state, both company and governor pledged the state would reap thousands and thousands of permanent manufacturing jobs from the giveaway.
Standing next to President Donald Trump at the White House in July 2017 to announce the deal, Walker put the number at “up to 13,000” jobs – even though the deal only guaranteed about a quarter of that figure.

The firm has struggled to deliver on its hiring commitments in Wisconsin ever since. But now, Foxconn execs are admitting that they won’t even build a factory at all.
https://thinkprogress.org/factory-wiscon...d-eea422ff0cef/

Donald Trump is a crook, and a liar ... but that's not the real problem
Whether or not the United States can make it through February without a shutdown may come down to a critical distinction: Is Donald Trump dishonest, or delusional? Neither one is exactly a thrilling property in someone who has a big “does not summon a Diet Coke” button on their desk, but one of them—dishonest Trump—represents someone whose positions may all be lies, but whose interests still fall in reality.
The other one—delusional Trump—can’t be reasoned with for the very simple reason that he lacks reason. ....

... Unfortunately, the answer is more likely that Trump is dishonest and delusional. Even when he loses the fight by 110 percent, he’ll still march out to explain how he knows everyone is behind him. And then he’ll take the country into a shutdown, where he can talk about imaginary federal workers who completely support his position to bankrupt their families and force their kids onto the street.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/1/...mpaign=trending

Trump Again Attacks Intelligence Officials After They Contradict His False Claims
The leaders of top national intelligence agencies released their annual report on worldwide security threats, challenging many of Trump’s false talking points.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/tru...bOrNnB5N5V3FSik

Trump suggests US intelligence chief should 'go back to school' because he knows more about Iran
Donald Trump has lambasted the US intelligence community as “extremely passive and naive when it comes to the dangers of Iran”, after top officials contradicted the president’s claims surrounding the foreign adversary and North Korea’s nuclear ambitions.

"The Intelligence people seem to be extremely passive and naive when it comes to the dangers of Iran," the president tweeted. "They are wrong! When I became President Iran was making trouble all over the Middle East, and beyond. Since ending the terrible Iran Nuclear Deal, they are MUCH different, but a source of potential danger and conflict."

"They are testing Rockets (last week) and more, and are coming very close to the edge," he added. "There economy is now crashing, which is the only thing holding them back. Be careful of Iran.

"Perhaps Intelligence should go back to school!"

The tweets arrived after National Intelligence Director Dan Coats released the annual Worldwide Threat Assessment, which concluded Tehran was not engaging in operations geared towards producing nuclear weaponry, while the North Korean regime remains steadfast in its refusal to give up its nuclear capabilities.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world...obox=1548861140

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2...tAvyu_Jbj0SIT_o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_conti...5&v=mSuQ-AyiicA

Eine interessante Entwicklung, zumal es in den USA immer wieder Versuche gegeben hat, das Zwei-Parteien-System zu sprengen: Eine gemäßigt nationalistische, wertkonservative, familienorientierte, auswärtigen "entanglements" abgeneigte Partei könnte durchaus erfolgreich sein gegen:
a) die Partei von BIG MONEY, der Marktfetischisten und der Neokons wie Billy Kristol, die jahrzehntelang eine Politik für die Reichen, für außenpolitische Abenteuer betrieben und die religiösen, wertkonservativen Wähler mit ein paar frommen Sprüchen abgefertigt haben;
b) die Partei von BIG MONEY, Genderreligiösen und Klimagläubigen, die eine ebenso bescheuerte Außenpolitik (samt Abenteuern) betreiben, und durch ihre verfehlte Migrationspolitik den Druck auf die Unterschichten und unteren Mittelschichten erhöhen.


"We don’t exist to serve markets, markets exist to serve us."

China-USA-Trade

China hat gerade zugesagt, 5 Mio Tonnen Soyabeans zu kaufen.

Ob das dem Willie-Boy die kalte Zeit etwas erträglicher macht?

Senate admonishes Trump on Syria
Senate Republicans joined Democrats in offering a direct rebuke Thursday of the administration’s Syria policy, marking the first time during the new Congress that the GOP caucus has formally broken with President Trump.

Senators voted 68-23 to end debate on an amendment that warns Trump against drawing down troops in Syria and Afghanistan. Senators still need to hold a second vote to add the amendment to the foreign policy bill, which will likely take place next week.

The vote is the latest sign of fracture between congressional Republicans and Trump on foreign policy.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4279...-trump-on-syria

Lack of Intelligence
Trump’s latest attacks on his own intelligence agencies are galling, even by his standards.

What must it be like to work in intelligence under Donald Trump? You delve as deeply as anyone into the area of your specialty, parse data from myriad sources (satellite imagery, communications intercepts, spies, open reports), weave your findings with those of 16 other agencies into carefully crafted reports. Then, the president, the sole customer for your products, denounces you on Twitter as “extremely passive,” “naïve,” and “wrong!” (The exclamation point is his.)

That’s what Trump did Wednesday morning, the day after his top intelligence officials testified before Congress about a report that disputes his opinions on Iran, North Korea, Syria, and more. ...

...Trump went after his intelligence directors with such harsh defensiveness—unusually so, by even his standards—because their congressional testimony contradicted his well-known positions too blatantly for him to ignore.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019...ats-haspel.html

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DyQzr6vW0AAaPj2.jpg

Zitat von Hans Bergman im Beitrag #4839

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Zitat von nahal im Beitrag #4838

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China-USA-Trade
China hat gerade zugesagt, 5 Mio Tonnen Soyabeans zu kaufen.
...

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Tiefgefroren?

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #4822

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Zitat von Indo_HS im Beitrag #4821

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An Dummdreistigkeit nicht zu überbieten ...:

<<Trump spottet über Klimawandel und Erderwärmung>>

Donald Trump hält den Klimawandel für eine Erfindung. Angesichts von eisiger Kälte im Mittleren Westen wünscht sich der US-Präsident die Erderwärmung zurück.
https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/us-p...g/23921288.html

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Das zeigt schon alleine wie beschraenkt der 'stable genius' ist.
Und dass er damit auch noch angibt, zeigt wie blind und taub er in seinem Narzissmus ist.
Und dass das Weisse Haus ihn das auch nch publizieren laesst, zeigt wie disfunktional die Administration ist.
Und dass die gesamte GOP hinter dieser Witzfigur noch herlaeuft, zeigt wie schwach und ausgehoehlt die Partei ist.

Das kann nicht mehr lange gut gehen.

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #4822

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Zitat von Indo_HS im Beitrag #4821

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An Dummdreistigkeit nicht zu überbieten ...:

<<Trump spottet über Klimawandel und Erderwärmung>>

Donald Trump hält den Klimawandel für eine Erfindung. Angesichts von eisiger Kälte im Mittleren Westen wünscht sich der US-Präsident die Erderwärmung zurück.
https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/us-p...g/23921288.html

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Das zeigt schon alleine wie beschraenkt der 'stable genius' ist.
Und dass er damit auch noch angibt, zeigt wie blind und taub er in seinem Narzissmus ist.
Und dass das Weisse Haus ihn das auch nch publizieren laesst, zeigt wie disfunktional die Administration ist.
Und dass die gesamte GOP hinter dieser Witzfigur noch herlaeuft, zeigt wie schwach und ausgehoehlt die Partei ist.

Das kann nicht mehr lange gut gehen.

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Pompeo Announces US Withdrawal From Arms Control Treaty With Russia
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has announced that the U.S. is pulling out of a treaty with Russia that’s been a centerpiece of arms control since the Cold War.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump...ear-arms-treaty

Trump Still Disagrees With Intel Chiefs: ‘Time Will Prove Me Right, Probably’
Just a day after telling Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats to “go back to school” when he contradicted President Trump’s claims about North Korea denuclearization and Iran, Trump insisted that he was right.
“Time will prove me right, probably,” he said Thursday when asked if he still had confidence in his intelligence chiefs.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump...-prove-me-right


Trump: I Criticized This Report Before I Read It, But Now I’ve Read It And I’m Right!
President Donald Trump hadn’t read the report when he criticized it Wednesday. But he has now read the report — and he’s right!

That’s just about what the commander-in-chief told reporters in the Oval Office Thursday regarding the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s Worldwide Threat Assessment, which was released Tuesday.

As was widely reported, the annual report’s top lines contradict many of the President’s favorite talking points.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump...uoted-fake-news

Pelosi: Trump ‘Doesn’t Seem To Have Attention Span’ To Listen To Intel Chiefs
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that President Donald Trump has failed to pay attention to warnings from his own administration about threats posed by North Korea, Iran and other countries.

Pelosi, D-Calif., told reporters that intelligence officials were “courageous” in speaking “truth to power” by publicly contradicting Trump in congressional testimony this week.
“One dismaying factor of it all is that the president just doesn’t seem to have the attention span or the desire to hear what the intelligence community has been telling him,” Pelosi said, calling Trump’s comments “cause for concern.”

Trump lashed out at intelligence agency leaders Wednesday after they told Congress that North Korea is unlikely to dismantle its nuclear arsenal and that the Iran nuclear deal is working.
Trump tweeted that intelligence officials were “extremely passive and naive when it comes to the dangers of Iran.” He added: “Perhaps Intelligence should go back to school!”

Pelosi said Trump’s comments were “stunning.”
“It’s important for the Republicans in Congress to recognize they have to weigh in with the president to say, ‘You can’t act without knowledge,'” Pelosi said.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/pelos...ntracting-trump

Trump Claims Intelligence Chiefs’ Live Testimony Was ‘Totally Misquoted’
The president insisted those officials privately said that their public contradiction of his world views was “fake news.”

President Donald Trump claimed on Thursday that his top intelligence officials told him their Senate testimony was “totally misquoted” — even though it had aired live on TV. Trump also insisted that these officials applied the “fake news” label to media reports that they had contradicted key presidential warnings about global threats.

In fact, the president’s previous assessments of various foreign dangers were dramatically contradicted by leaders of the nation’s intelligence agencies in public testimony Tuesday before the Senate Intelligence Committee.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/tru...4b0bdf0e7d97d98

Delusional madness oder unverschaemtes luegen -was ist es?

It's official: Trump drops out of nuclear treaty, giving Putin the destabilized Europe he wants
The Russian asset in the White House has proven his worth to Putin by doing yet another thing Russia wanted out of him, suspending U.S. participation in the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. That's the kind of international power structure destabilization Russia, and increasingly China, have been looking for out of Trump.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/2/...Europe-he-wants


US withdrawal from INF Treaty inevitable, says Russian diplomat
The United States’ withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty) is inevitable, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said in an interview with the Rossiya-24 TV channel.

"I think it is inevitable, there will be no deviations from President Trump said and what National Security Adviser repeated John Bolton said during his visit to Moscow. The game is over and the Americans will eventually ditch the Treaty," he said.
"It will be a powerful blow to the international arms control system and non-proliferation system," Ryabkov added.
http://tass.com/politics/1042799

“‘Public banking’ are two words that send shivers down the spine of Wall Street”
As Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez takes a seat on the House Financial Services Committee, her tweet saying she wants to get to work on public banking was heard round the world. “I’m looking forward to digging into the student loan crisis, examining for-profit prisons/ICE detention, and exploring the development of public & postal banking,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. The French press agency AFP immediately caught on, writing “‘Public banking’ are two words that send shivers down the spine of Wall Street.”
http://www.publicbankinginstitute.org/pu...nWU0CHIlyoF-RPQ


Wall Street wary of progressive Democrats on the House finance committee
Wall Street is bunkering down for a wave of intense scrutiny as a group of progressive Democrats, including social media star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, have joined a powerful House of Representatives committee overseeing banking activities.

... "Our fear," a banking source told AFP, "is that she (Waters) will reinforce oversight of big banks."
The source expects to see "more CEO hearings in Congress" with the Democrats in charge.

Half of the new committee members belong to the Progressive Caucus, the left wing of the Democratic party.
Several made a splash when they ran for office in the November 2018 election.
They include Ayanna Pressley, the first African American congresswoman from Massachusetts, and Rashida Tlaib, the first Palestinian American and one of the two first female Muslim lawmakers in Washington.
https://www.france24.com/en/20190120-wal...nance-committee